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Einstein Algebras and the Hole Argument
Einstein algebras have been suggested (Earman 1989) and rejected (Rynasiewicz 1992) as a way to avoid the hole argument against spacetime substantivalism. In this article, I debate their merits and faults. In particular, I suggest that a gauge-invariant interpretation of Einstein algebras that avoids the hole argument can be associated with one approach to quantizing gravity, and, for this reas...
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Jim Weatherall has argued that Einstein’s hole argument is based on a misleading use of mathematics. I argue on the contrary that Weatherall demands an implausible restriction on how mathematics is used. The hole argument, on the other hand, is in no new danger at all.
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I argue that the Hole Argument is based on a misleading use of the mathematical formalism of general relativity. If one is attentive to mathematical practice, I will argue, the Hole Argument is blocked.
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In this paper I shall extend the formulation of the hole argument to permutable theories. As covariant theories provides a general mathematical framework for classical physics, permutable theories provide the language for quantum physics. This analogy is deeply founded: as covariant theories are defined functorially on the category of manifolds and local diffeomorphisms with values into the cat...
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This brief paper shows how an exact analogue of Einstein’s original hole argument can be constructed in the loop representation of quantum gravity. The new argument is based on the embedding of spin-networks in a manifold and the action of the diffeomorphism constraint on them. The implications of this result are then discussed. I argue that the conclusions of many physicists working on loop qu...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part B: Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics
سال: 2019
ISSN: 1355-2198
DOI: 10.1016/j.shpsb.2019.04.008